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Chapter 24 Configuring FlexLinks and the MAC Address-Table Move Update
How to Configure the FlexLinks and MAC Address-Table Move Update

Configuration Guidelines for FlexLinks and MAC Address-Table Move Update

Follow these guidelines to configure FlexLinks:
You can configure up to 16 backup links.
You can configure only one FlexLinks backup link for any active link, and it must be a different
interface from the active interface.
An interface can belong to only one FlexLinks pair. An interface can be a backup link for only one
active link. An active link cannot belong to another FlexLinks pair.
Neither of the links can be a port that belongs to an EtherChannel. However, you can configure two
port channels (EtherChannel logical interfaces) as FlexLinks, and you can configure a port channel
and a physical interface as FlexLinks, with either the port channel or the physical interface as the
active link.
A backup link does not have to be the same type (Fast Ethernet, Gigabi t Ethernet, or port channel)
as the active link. However, you should configure both FlexLinks with similar characteristics so that
there are no loops or changes in behavior if the standby link begins to forward traffic.
STP is disabled on FlexLinks ports. A FlexLinks port does not participate in STP, even if the VLANs
present on the port are configured for STP. When STP is not enabled, be sure that there are no loops
in the configured topology. Once the FlexLinks configurations are removed, STP is reenabled on the
ports.
Follow these guidelines to configure VLAN load balancing on the FlexLinks feature:
For FlexLinks VLAN load balancing, you must choose the preferred VLANs on the backup
interface.
You cannot configure a preemption mechanism and VLAN load balancing for the same FlexLinks
pair.
Follow these guidelines to configure the MAC address-table move update feature:
You can enable and configure this feature on the access switch to send the MAC address-table move
updates.
You can enable and configure this feature on the uplink switches to receive the MAC address-table
move updates.
How to Configure the FlexLinks and MAC Address-Table Move Update

Configuring FlexLinks

Command Purpose
Step 1 configure terminal Enters global configuration mode.
Step 2 interface interface-id Specifies the interface, and enters interface configuration
mode. The interface can be a physical Layer 2 interface or
a port channel (logical interface). The port-channel range
is 1 to 6.